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…Agent Orange Link Diabetes Strongly Associated With Vietnam Exposure to Pesticide U.S. Air Force planes spray the defoliant chemical Agent Orange over dense vegetation in South Vietnam in this 1966 photo. Dioxin is the component of Agent…

…Larry LaBarge the war in Vietnam was mostly a helicopter and air war there were many jets and helicopters that had been shot down in the enemy controlled areas in the than that a survivor of a one of these crashes were captured they would become…

…Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and the Vietnam Veteran Combat in war poses many hardships for the men who fight. Living conditions are usually harsh and exposure to traumatic events the norm. During the middle part of this century America sent…

…Politics Australia had reasons for wanting to join the Vietnam War, quite apart from considerations of South Vietnamese sovereignty. It was considered necessary to maintain good relations with our alliance partners the United) and constituted a critical…

…Larry LaBarge the war in Vietnam was mostly a helicopter and air war there were many jets and helicopters that had been shot down in the enemy controlled areas in the than that a survivor of a one of these crashes were captured they would become…

…of Vietnam films are Platoon and China Gate. But some films in this sub-genre stray from this pattern. One example of a film about Vietnam in which the subject position does not change is Apocalypse Now. In Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola creates…

…Yusef Komunyakaa's poem, "Facing It," speaks of the disturbed memories of a veteran. In the poem, the narrator, a black, Vietnam War veteran, is visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C. The speaker talks of how he feels…

…Asia, where France was trying to regain control of its colony Vietnam. Opposing the French were the powerful nationalist forces of Ho Chi Minh, who was both a committed nationalist and a committed communist. At first, the Eisenhower administration supported…

…Asia, comprised of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam (Indochina, 2001). Its most recent and most important contact with the West came from France and America. The West had a negative impact on Indochina because its influence damaged Southeast Asia's system…

…The mere mention of Vietnam immediately brings to mind its troubled past and a brutal war that was fought there for nearly three decades. But, in reality Vietnam is a beautiful country covered by tall mountains, open plains, deep valleys and cultivated…